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The process whereby religion looses its influence over social life and society is known as secularisation.
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The process whereby religion looses its influence over social life and society is known as secularisation. Secularisation is of concern to all churches in Ireland because, (Sociology Lecture 1,1996: 1) secularisation is supposedly a result of the processes of industrialisation and modernisation, both of which have occurred in the growth of the 'Celtic tiger' in the past four decades. (Goldthorpe and Whelan, 1992: 265) Secularisation has meant that religious institutions have lost some of the predominance they used to have and lost some of the social position they occupied. However secularisation is not just an institutions process, it is also a process within human consciousness. (Berger, 1981: 10) In order to assess whether religion is still relevant in contemporary Irish society, or whether a process of secularisation is taking place, this essay will look at (INTRODUCTION) From the most recent European Values Study (EVS), statistics show that over 8% of the...
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